Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with art.
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to be able to correct that by bringing many more pieces of interesting artwork to Japan.
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.
a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.
I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
Not every work of art connects with the audience.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
